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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Beeswax"”.
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Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, the Hive, and Identity in Women's Writing
… subvert the societal devaluation of women. The beeswax bodies represent gendered constructions of how women should behave. The characters "melt" these bodies by refusing to fit the mold and by redesigning the mold to fit themselves.
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Capacity Building on Quality and Quantity of Honey and Beeswax Production, Tupendane Nyuki Group
… and aspect of quality control of honey and beeswax for market assurance. The host organization has 10 members. The group member identified a number of problem during the Community Need Assessment (CNA). The CNA was conducted through rural participatory approach where members of the group …
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Formulation & Thermophysical Analysis of a Beeswax Microemulsion & The Experimental Calculation of its Heat Transfer Coefficient
… This investigation examines the preparation of a beeswax microemulsion, the analysis of its thermophysical properties, and the experimental method to calculate its heat transfer coefficient under laminar flow conditions. First, the beeswax microemulsion was formulated to possess both a low …
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An assessment of stingless beeswax as a pattern material in ancient Mesoamerican lost-wax casting
Metal objects were of great cultural significance in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Historical and archaeological evidence prove that these items were made by the process of investment casting, or "lost wax" casting, by which a wax model of the object is created, and a ceramic mold is built around it. …
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Organic residue analysis of Red Lustrous Wheelmade Ware vessels traded across the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age
… spectrometry identified four materials ¿ beeswax, bitumen, fat/oil and resin. Beeswax, found only in vessels from Hittite sites in Turkey, was probably used as a post-firing treatment. Fat/oil, present in some sherds from every site, represents the contents of the vessels and showed many …
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Organic residue analysis of Red Lustrous Wheelmade Ware vessels traded across the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age
… spectrometry identified four materials ¿ beeswax, bitumen, fat/oil and resin. Beeswax, found only in vessels from Hittite sites in Turkey, was probably used as a post-firing treatment. Fat/oil, present in some sherds from every site, represents the contents of the vessels and showed many …
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Becoming the flaming creature
… this body of work, materials such as latex, beeswax, paper pulp, clay, scent are mobilized not for permanence, but for their capacity to leak, rupture, and reform by mirroring cycles of care and the internal mechanics of the body. The accompanying sample of the poem chapbook, Dog Custody, …
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Inside, Outside, In-Between.
… into materiality and process, combining local beeswax, sticks, garden soil, charcoal, and ashes together with oil, shellac, oil pastel, pencil, and other traditional artist's materials.</p><p>Ideas discussed include materiality, process, composition, cropping, collective and selective memory, …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΟΡΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΙΔΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΕΡΙΩΝ ΟΔΟΝΤΟΣΤΟΙΧΙΩΝ
… DENTAL MODELLING WAXES WERE USED, AS WELL AS BEESWAX AND A WAX COMPOSED IN THE LABORATORY. IT WAS FOUND THAT ALL THE MATERIALS, SUBJECTED TO THE KINETIC STUDY OF DEFORMATION HAD UNDERGONE SHAPE-CHANGES, ESPECIALLY AFTER HEATING AT 27 C AND 47 C. THE FLOW VALUES MEASURED ARE RELATED TO THE …
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Mutualism between honeyguides, beekeepers and honey-hunters in the southern highlands of Tanzania
… of honeyguides, and honeyguides feed on leftover beeswax. The relationship between honeyguides and honey-hunters in search of wild bees' nests has been well studied, but we know little about the relationship between honeyguides and beekeepers who harvest honey from man-made beehives. I studied the …
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Mud and Ashes.
… local materials such as red clay, pollen, and beeswax along with traditional artist’s materials such as oil and charcoal. Fire and a power sander have also been used as drawing tools. Each painting is 22 x 22 inches square and hangs directly on the wall, unmounted and unframed.</p><p>Topics …
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Empowering Community Livelihoods Through Modern Beekeeping: The Case of Ukombozi Group in Kisongwe Village, Kilosa District, Morogoro Region
… like harvesting and processing of honey and beeswax also management of an apiary. Some products and outputs for the objectives have so far been realized and reported during project monitoring and midterm evaluation. Project implementation is going on well while monitoring and midterm …
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Huichol Yarn Painting as an Art Therapy Intervention to Promote Insight in Latino Children
… is made by pressing colorful yams into softened beeswax that is applied to a wood panel. These yam paintings depict various symbols and are created as a way to honor the history of the Huichol people.</p> <p>This thesis looks at the history of the Huichol yam paintings. It examined its current …
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Amelioration of acute and chronic toxicity of imidacloprid by dietary phytochemicals in honey bees (apis mellifera)
… by its presence in nectar, pollen, water, and beeswax. In the presence of imidacloprid, honey bees upregulate cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are implicated in their detoxification; because consumption of the phytochemicals quercetin and p-coumaric acid, common constituents of honey and …
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Photophysical Properties of Emerging 2D Materials
… through a novel encapsulation method using a beeswax/PMMA layered structure. This encapsulant provides long-term protection against moisture and environmental degradation, allowing the devices to operate stably under water for extended durations. The encapsulated photodetectors are also …
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Understanding the mutualistic interaction between greater honeyguides and four co-existing human cultures in northern Tanzania
… valuable honey, and the honeyguides feed on the beeswax leftover from the harvest. In northern Tanzania, multiple human cultural groups live in close proximity in the same geographical area, and most of them practice honey-hunting with the help of honeyguides. Yet, they may differ in cultural …
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A methodology for the heat of immersion as a measure of wettability of mineral mixtures
… the mineral into the wetting liquid due to the beeswax used to seal the ampoule dissolving in the hexane. Finally, hexanol was found to be a good wetting liquid in suppressing dissolution, had no associated experimental difficulties and was able to distinguish relative hydrophobicities between …